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Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1983-02-24

Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1983-02-24, page 01

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ZiW// Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community for Over 60 Years Vw/VK.
VOL. 61 NO. 8
FEBRUARY 24,1983-ADAR11
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
L.! BRAHY > OH ! o'-.'ri 1-8T0R fGAL, SOC^m^
.1.982-VE-UMA AVE. ■■'■
OOLS, 0. 432?1 ■ E*OH .
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SPECIAL TO THE JTA
Barbie's Escape From Europe Arranged
y Vatican, CIC, International Re
Shown above are the students of the Tifereth Israel
Religious School first grade class with their teacher,
Suzanne Engelberg, and assistants, Leslie Nateman,
Deborah Felsenthal and Alia Covel. The members of
the class contributing the trees include: Micah Berman, Jennifer Blott, Shana Canter, Joey Cooper,
Shana Covel, Michael Epstein, Evan Fisher, Angela
Freidenberg, Benjamin Genshaft, Danny Glimcher,
Leslie Handler, Rebecca Jacobstein, Jessica Portugal,
Sean Robins, Andrea Sniderman, Jason Solove,
Melissa Stahl. Emily Topolosky and Eric White.
Tifereth Israel Class Honors
Soviet Refusenik Elena Pekar
Suzanne Engelberg's first
grade class in the Congregation Tifereth Israel Religious
School has chosen to honor
their Refusenik classmate,
Elena Pekar, through the
purchase of five trees in the
Jewish National Fund's
Tifereth Israel Youth Garden in the northern Gallilee
of Israel; The certificate
representing the five trees
has been forwarded to the
Pekars on Yaroslavskoe
Shosse in Moscow.
Pekar is a student in
absentia of the first grade
class at Tifereth Israel as
part of a project of the school
and the Soviet Jewry
Research Bureau of New
York. The tree purchase is
part of the school's Tu B'Shevat tree sale drive in cooperation with the Jewish
National Fund office in
Columbus.
Elena, who will be six
years old this March 14, is
the youngest child of Iosif
and Lea Pekar, whose visa
application to Israel has
been refused repeatedly
since April of 1978. When
Iosif Pekar applied to leave
the Soviet Union in 1978 with
his wife and three children,
he was dismissed from his
job as a radio engineer. He
was able to obtain a temporary job, but this, too, was
lost when his refusenik
status became known. The,
Pekar family is left without
any means of support.
Elena, their youngest child,
has undergone surgery once
and may need a second
operation. Iosif fought his
job dismissal in a civil court
for six months but lost the
case. The Pekars' emigration applications were
rejected due to the alleged
"secrecy" of Iosif's former
job as a radio engineer. Iosif
appealed to Boris Shumilin,
Deputy Minister of the Interior, for reconsideration of
his case, since Iosif was not
aware of being exposed to
any state "secrets."
In 1979 Lea Pekar wrote to
the head of the Committee of
Soviet Women in a special
appeal during the International Year of the Child. She
described the family's plight
and their inability to care for
their three children properly, as they are often ill.
Lea received the following
response: "We do not intend
to help the children of parents who want to leave the
Soviet Union."
By Charles Allen; Jr.
Part One
Editor's note; Charles Allen Jr. is an
Internationally, published autitor/iour-
nalist whose book in the early 1960s,
Nazi War Criminals Among Us, provided detailed Information about 38
known and suspected war criminals.
He has also been called upon' frequently by Congressional committees
to testily about activities of former
Nazis now living in the U.S.
NEW YORK (JTA)-
Klaus Barbie, the gestapo
"butcher of Lyon," recently
extradited from Bolivia to
France on charges of conducting mass Imurders and
deportations of French Jews
and members of the resistance movement during the
Holocaust was. aided in his
. escape from Europe in late
1949 and early 1950 by the
Vatican, the U.S. Army's
Counter Intelligence Corps
(CIC) and the International
'Red Cross.
This correspondent has
pieced together from various
documents, including the
State Department's, Barbie's movements since his
first utilization by the CIC in
1947 until his expulsion from
Bolivia 36 years later.
Barbie took the so-called
"monastery route," an
underground railroad, so to
speak, for scores of wanted
Nazi war criminals. The
route was known to the U.S.
Embassy in Rome, which
did nothing to stem the flow
of wanted war criminals
from Europe, most of them
originating in the American-
occupied zone of Germany.
The northern starting
i
Happiness Is: A Healthy Heart
Theme Of Annual Health Fair
On March 6 At Jewish Center
j
Sunday, March 6, is the
Jewish Center's fourth
annual Health and Fitness
Fair from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
This year's theme is "Happiness is: A Healthy Heart,"
The fair will feature health
screenings, information
booths, demonstrations and
lectures- "
Health screenings taking
place will be height, weight,
blood pressure, pulsometer,
caliper (fat%), vision, glaucoma, hearing,' speech, oral
cancer, plaque, diabetes,
blood typing, foot screenings, ' pulmonary function,
arthritis and vascular studies.
Agencies providing the
screenings include Alpha
Omega Dental Fraternity,
Central Ohio Diabetes,
Columbus Speech and Hear-.
ing Center, Franklin County
Heart Branch, O.S.U. Cardiac Rehabilitation Center,
O.S.U. College of Optometry,
St. Anthony Hospital and Dr.
William Evans, Inc. ,
Information booths
include Central Ohio Lung,
Second Sole, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Lupus Foundation, March of Dimes,
Epilepsy Foundation, Cystic
Fibrosis, Columbus Achievement Center, American Red
Cross, American Cancer
Society, Poison Control Center and Myasthenia Gravis.
Demonstrations will run
throughout the afternoon
and include JuJitsu, Danc-
Aerqbics, synchronized
swimming, gymnastics and
C.P.R.
A panel discussion will
. • - (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8)
point of the "monastery
route" was in Bavaria and
the Austrian frontier, then it
dipped south to the Italian
Alps, dropping further south
to way-stations leading to
exits from the ports of Genoa
or Naples.
Secreted From Monastery
To Monastery
My information shows that
Barbie, disguised as a monk,
was secreted from monastery to monastery along*
the route. He went to Milan
and then to Genoa and from
there to Franco Spain, then
to Portugal which was ruled
by fascist Premier Antonio
de Oliveira Salazar and then
by ship to Latin America
where his first country of
call was Peru, not Bolivia.
There is some evidence indicating that Barbie went first
to Argentina:
Corroboration of my findings came dramatically
recently from Dr. Erhard
Dabringhaus, a 65-year-old
faculty member of Wayne
State University in Detroit,
Mich, Dabringhaus served
as Barbie's case officer in
the CIC in Germany in 1948.
He exclusively told NBC-TV
News .and the Detroit'Free
Press that Barbie had been
secretly employed as an
informer by the CIC in 1948,
for the then astounding sum
of $1,700 a month. ''
Barbie provided informa-
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 15)
Yael Dayan To Speak At Conference
The Israel Department of
the Columbus Jewish Federation and the Israel/
Judaic Committee of the Leo
fering perspectives of Israel.
Yael Dayan, Israeli novelist,
journalist and the daughter
of Moshe Dayan, who was
both Defense and Foreign
Minister of Israel, will
deliver the keynote address,
"Israel After 35 Years of
Independence."
A multi-media presentation, "The Israel Experience," will open the conference. This is a panoramic
presentation shdwhori three
screens with ten projectors
working simultaneously.
Films, slides^ sound effects,
music and narration are
combined to make the
viewer feel he is actually in
Israel.
This will be followed by
Mrs. Dayan's lecture, after
which there will be a panel
discussion on the issue of
"Israeland the Diaspora."
The question to be discussed
by the panel will be, "What
kind of relationship should
there be between Israel and
the Diaspora?". Three different points of view will be
presented by Dr. Martin
Plex,^'prbfessbr"'^'^bflti£a'I
science at Kent State Via-"
versity; Rabbi Roger Klein,
professor of religion at Wes-
leyan College in Connecticut,
and Dr. Shmuel Rozenman,
(CONTINUED ON PAOE 15)
Yael Dayan
Yassenoff Jewish Center are
cooperatively sponsoring a
conference, "Israel After 35
Years of Independence," on
Sunday, March 13, at the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center.
Beginning at 7 p.m., the
conference will present dif-
Award Winning Film To Be Shown
At Yassenoff Center Next Tuesday
"Close Harmony," a film
which took place at the
Brooklyn Center for Senior
Citizens, funded and oper-
fiamentaschen
A Purim Treat
fiamentaschen, three-cornered cookies
filled with "mohn" or poppy seeds, are
traditionally eaten on the holiday of Purim,
celebrated this year on Feb. 27. They were
originally called "mohntaschen," poppy
seed pockets, in Yiddish, but the name
was changed by folk custom to refer to the
three-cornered hat worn by Hainan, the
villain of the Purim story.
^
ated by the Brooklyn Section
of the National Council of
Jewish' Women, will be
shown next Tuesday evening, March 1, at 7 p.m. at a
joint meeting sponsored by
the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center and the Columbus
Section, Council of Jewish
Women.
The film won the Academy
Award for Short Subjects
and received an Emmy, a
Cine Golden Eagle Award
and a Christopher. National
recognition was given to
Council of Jewish Women for
its part in making possible
the participation of the older
people from the Council's
Center for Senior Citizens.
The film concerns itself with
the relationship between
these older people and a
group of young people, who
get together to sing and in
the process, discover each
other, It has been called "a
joyous affirmation of life and
celebration of mutual
respect." ■
There will be no charge for
the meeting, to which the
entire community is invited.
The Columbus Academy
Boys' Choir and the Frei--
lachaires will perform, and
refreshments will be served.

1
'■
OfflOJE
ZiW// Serving Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Community for Over 60 Years Vw/VK.
VOL. 61 NO. 8
FEBRUARY 24,1983-ADAR11
Devoted to American
and Jewish Ideals.
L.! BRAHY > OH ! o'-.'ri 1-8T0R fGAL, SOC^m^
.1.982-VE-UMA AVE. ■■'■
OOLS, 0. 432?1 ■ E*OH .
I
l>
SPECIAL TO THE JTA
Barbie's Escape From Europe Arranged
y Vatican, CIC, International Re
Shown above are the students of the Tifereth Israel
Religious School first grade class with their teacher,
Suzanne Engelberg, and assistants, Leslie Nateman,
Deborah Felsenthal and Alia Covel. The members of
the class contributing the trees include: Micah Berman, Jennifer Blott, Shana Canter, Joey Cooper,
Shana Covel, Michael Epstein, Evan Fisher, Angela
Freidenberg, Benjamin Genshaft, Danny Glimcher,
Leslie Handler, Rebecca Jacobstein, Jessica Portugal,
Sean Robins, Andrea Sniderman, Jason Solove,
Melissa Stahl. Emily Topolosky and Eric White.
Tifereth Israel Class Honors
Soviet Refusenik Elena Pekar
Suzanne Engelberg's first
grade class in the Congregation Tifereth Israel Religious
School has chosen to honor
their Refusenik classmate,
Elena Pekar, through the
purchase of five trees in the
Jewish National Fund's
Tifereth Israel Youth Garden in the northern Gallilee
of Israel; The certificate
representing the five trees
has been forwarded to the
Pekars on Yaroslavskoe
Shosse in Moscow.
Pekar is a student in
absentia of the first grade
class at Tifereth Israel as
part of a project of the school
and the Soviet Jewry
Research Bureau of New
York. The tree purchase is
part of the school's Tu B'Shevat tree sale drive in cooperation with the Jewish
National Fund office in
Columbus.
Elena, who will be six
years old this March 14, is
the youngest child of Iosif
and Lea Pekar, whose visa
application to Israel has
been refused repeatedly
since April of 1978. When
Iosif Pekar applied to leave
the Soviet Union in 1978 with
his wife and three children,
he was dismissed from his
job as a radio engineer. He
was able to obtain a temporary job, but this, too, was
lost when his refusenik
status became known. The,
Pekar family is left without
any means of support.
Elena, their youngest child,
has undergone surgery once
and may need a second
operation. Iosif fought his
job dismissal in a civil court
for six months but lost the
case. The Pekars' emigration applications were
rejected due to the alleged
"secrecy" of Iosif's former
job as a radio engineer. Iosif
appealed to Boris Shumilin,
Deputy Minister of the Interior, for reconsideration of
his case, since Iosif was not
aware of being exposed to
any state "secrets."
In 1979 Lea Pekar wrote to
the head of the Committee of
Soviet Women in a special
appeal during the International Year of the Child. She
described the family's plight
and their inability to care for
their three children properly, as they are often ill.
Lea received the following
response: "We do not intend
to help the children of parents who want to leave the
Soviet Union."
By Charles Allen; Jr.
Part One
Editor's note; Charles Allen Jr. is an
Internationally, published autitor/iour-
nalist whose book in the early 1960s,
Nazi War Criminals Among Us, provided detailed Information about 38
known and suspected war criminals.
He has also been called upon' frequently by Congressional committees
to testily about activities of former
Nazis now living in the U.S.
NEW YORK (JTA)-
Klaus Barbie, the gestapo
"butcher of Lyon," recently
extradited from Bolivia to
France on charges of conducting mass Imurders and
deportations of French Jews
and members of the resistance movement during the
Holocaust was. aided in his
. escape from Europe in late
1949 and early 1950 by the
Vatican, the U.S. Army's
Counter Intelligence Corps
(CIC) and the International
'Red Cross.
This correspondent has
pieced together from various
documents, including the
State Department's, Barbie's movements since his
first utilization by the CIC in
1947 until his expulsion from
Bolivia 36 years later.
Barbie took the so-called
"monastery route," an
underground railroad, so to
speak, for scores of wanted
Nazi war criminals. The
route was known to the U.S.
Embassy in Rome, which
did nothing to stem the flow
of wanted war criminals
from Europe, most of them
originating in the American-
occupied zone of Germany.
The northern starting
i
Happiness Is: A Healthy Heart
Theme Of Annual Health Fair
On March 6 At Jewish Center
j
Sunday, March 6, is the
Jewish Center's fourth
annual Health and Fitness
Fair from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
This year's theme is "Happiness is: A Healthy Heart,"
The fair will feature health
screenings, information
booths, demonstrations and
lectures- "
Health screenings taking
place will be height, weight,
blood pressure, pulsometer,
caliper (fat%), vision, glaucoma, hearing,' speech, oral
cancer, plaque, diabetes,
blood typing, foot screenings, ' pulmonary function,
arthritis and vascular studies.
Agencies providing the
screenings include Alpha
Omega Dental Fraternity,
Central Ohio Diabetes,
Columbus Speech and Hear-.
ing Center, Franklin County
Heart Branch, O.S.U. Cardiac Rehabilitation Center,
O.S.U. College of Optometry,
St. Anthony Hospital and Dr.
William Evans, Inc. ,
Information booths
include Central Ohio Lung,
Second Sole, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Lupus Foundation, March of Dimes,
Epilepsy Foundation, Cystic
Fibrosis, Columbus Achievement Center, American Red
Cross, American Cancer
Society, Poison Control Center and Myasthenia Gravis.
Demonstrations will run
throughout the afternoon
and include JuJitsu, Danc-
Aerqbics, synchronized
swimming, gymnastics and
C.P.R.
A panel discussion will
. • - (CONTINUED ON PAGE 8)
point of the "monastery
route" was in Bavaria and
the Austrian frontier, then it
dipped south to the Italian
Alps, dropping further south
to way-stations leading to
exits from the ports of Genoa
or Naples.
Secreted From Monastery
To Monastery
My information shows that
Barbie, disguised as a monk,
was secreted from monastery to monastery along*
the route. He went to Milan
and then to Genoa and from
there to Franco Spain, then
to Portugal which was ruled
by fascist Premier Antonio
de Oliveira Salazar and then
by ship to Latin America
where his first country of
call was Peru, not Bolivia.
There is some evidence indicating that Barbie went first
to Argentina:
Corroboration of my findings came dramatically
recently from Dr. Erhard
Dabringhaus, a 65-year-old
faculty member of Wayne
State University in Detroit,
Mich, Dabringhaus served
as Barbie's case officer in
the CIC in Germany in 1948.
He exclusively told NBC-TV
News .and the Detroit'Free
Press that Barbie had been
secretly employed as an
informer by the CIC in 1948,
for the then astounding sum
of $1,700 a month. ''
Barbie provided informa-
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 15)
Yael Dayan To Speak At Conference
The Israel Department of
the Columbus Jewish Federation and the Israel/
Judaic Committee of the Leo
fering perspectives of Israel.
Yael Dayan, Israeli novelist,
journalist and the daughter
of Moshe Dayan, who was
both Defense and Foreign
Minister of Israel, will
deliver the keynote address,
"Israel After 35 Years of
Independence."
A multi-media presentation, "The Israel Experience," will open the conference. This is a panoramic
presentation shdwhori three
screens with ten projectors
working simultaneously.
Films, slides^ sound effects,
music and narration are
combined to make the
viewer feel he is actually in
Israel.
This will be followed by
Mrs. Dayan's lecture, after
which there will be a panel
discussion on the issue of
"Israeland the Diaspora."
The question to be discussed
by the panel will be, "What
kind of relationship should
there be between Israel and
the Diaspora?". Three different points of view will be
presented by Dr. Martin
Plex,^'prbfessbr"'^'^bflti£a'I
science at Kent State Via-"
versity; Rabbi Roger Klein,
professor of religion at Wes-
leyan College in Connecticut,
and Dr. Shmuel Rozenman,
(CONTINUED ON PAOE 15)
Yael Dayan
Yassenoff Jewish Center are
cooperatively sponsoring a
conference, "Israel After 35
Years of Independence," on
Sunday, March 13, at the Leo
Yassenoff Jewish Center.
Beginning at 7 p.m., the
conference will present dif-
Award Winning Film To Be Shown
At Yassenoff Center Next Tuesday
"Close Harmony," a film
which took place at the
Brooklyn Center for Senior
Citizens, funded and oper-
fiamentaschen
A Purim Treat
fiamentaschen, three-cornered cookies
filled with "mohn" or poppy seeds, are
traditionally eaten on the holiday of Purim,
celebrated this year on Feb. 27. They were
originally called "mohntaschen," poppy
seed pockets, in Yiddish, but the name
was changed by folk custom to refer to the
three-cornered hat worn by Hainan, the
villain of the Purim story.
^
ated by the Brooklyn Section
of the National Council of
Jewish' Women, will be
shown next Tuesday evening, March 1, at 7 p.m. at a
joint meeting sponsored by
the Leo Yassenoff Jewish
Center and the Columbus
Section, Council of Jewish
Women.
The film won the Academy
Award for Short Subjects
and received an Emmy, a
Cine Golden Eagle Award
and a Christopher. National
recognition was given to
Council of Jewish Women for
its part in making possible
the participation of the older
people from the Council's
Center for Senior Citizens.
The film concerns itself with
the relationship between
these older people and a
group of young people, who
get together to sing and in
the process, discover each
other, It has been called "a
joyous affirmation of life and
celebration of mutual
respect." ■
There will be no charge for
the meeting, to which the
entire community is invited.
The Columbus Academy
Boys' Choir and the Frei--
lachaires will perform, and
refreshments will be served.